Yeah, everyone who isn’t Vimes or someone in his direct circle think he’s an absolute monster, and his reforms are mostly just professionalizing and standardizing the police, making them less overtly racist, making them less comically corrupt (although still tolerating corruption), etc. He’s one of the pawns in Vetinarii’s modernization plans, just like the conman he enlists to modernize the post office and banking system.
Yeah, Prachett doesn’t have any particularly special love for Vimes, which comes off in his memoirs. However, he was extremely good at tapping into the “Good Cop” psyche, and the reason Guards! Guards! is one of his best books, is because it is the first one in the Discworld series that really buckled down on fleashing out Ankt-Morpork as a real breathing city, not just a fantasy foil for Rincewinds stories to begin, and Vimes is absolutely the best narrator to tell that story.
It definitely is the one that really put him on the map.
Yeah, everyone who isn’t Vimes or someone in his direct circle think he’s an absolute monster, and his reforms are mostly just professionalizing and standardizing the police, making them less overtly racist, making them less comically corrupt (although still tolerating corruption), etc. He’s one of the pawns in Vetinarii’s modernization plans, just like the conman he enlists to modernize the post office and banking system.
Yeah, Prachett doesn’t have any particularly special love for Vimes, which comes off in his memoirs. However, he was extremely good at tapping into the “Good Cop” psyche, and the reason Guards! Guards! is one of his best books, is because it is the first one in the Discworld series that really buckled down on fleashing out Ankt-Morpork as a real breathing city, not just a fantasy foil for Rincewinds stories to begin, and Vimes is absolutely the best narrator to tell that story.
It definitely is the one that really put him on the map.